Category: Pain Science and Sensibility

This episode covers a recent meta analysis looking at differences in brain patterns when an expectancy violation, thought to be important in effectiveness of exposure based therapies (see episodes 12, 15, and 31), occurs...

In this episode, Sandy and Cory discuss a recent paper proposing a “Mechanism Based approach to physical therapy management of pain.” This paper proposes 5 mechanisms to consider when managing people in pain and...

How much of an improvement would you need to see in order to feel that physiotherapy was going to be worthwhile for your low back, neck, or shoulder pain? This is the question that...

In this episode the topic of pain memory recall is explored. How well do we remember our past pains? Are there differences in recall between populations? What might account for the differences when they...

In episode 33, Sandy and Cory are joined once again by Pain Specialist Physician, Milton Cohen. Dr. Cohen and his group have submitted a new clinical definition of pain. In the discussion, we unpack...

A recent paper looks at the philosophical underpinnings of the practice of mindfulness and raises some concerns regarding the ethics of its use. In this episode, these concerns are discussed as well as the...

We return to exposure based therapy and an update of the topic covered in the popular episodes 12 and 15, expectancy violation. This time we discuss a clinical commentary paper reviewing the state of...

Our guest in this episode is Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who has spent decades right in the middle of several...